This week we have a fun recipe that almost everyone already has, but I thought it would be fun to feature it anyway. Because Christmas.
These are Peanut Butter Blossoms!
AuthorRetroRuth
From Tom's Mom's Recipe Collection!
Tested Recipe!
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Cream together butter, peanut butter, sugar, and brown sugar
Blend in flour, soda, and salt.
Add egg, milk, and vanilla. Mix to combine.
Shape rounded teaspoons of dough into balls. Roll in sugar and place on an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake 8 mins at 375 degrees.
Remove from oven and place a solid milk chocolate candy kiss on top of each cookie. Press the dough so that cookies crack around edges.
Return cookies to the oven and bake 2-5 minutes longer. Do not overbake. You want the cookies to be lightly browned on the bottom.
Ingredients
Directions
Cream together butter, peanut butter, sugar, and brown sugar
Blend in flour, soda, and salt.
Add egg, milk, and vanilla. Mix to combine.
Shape rounded teaspoons of dough into balls. Roll in sugar and place on an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake 8 mins at 375 degrees.
Remove from oven and place a solid milk chocolate candy kiss on top of each cookie. Press the dough so that cookies crack around edges.
Return cookies to the oven and bake 2-5 minutes longer. Do not overbake. You want the cookies to be lightly browned on the bottom.
Notes
Thank you to Tom’s mom for bringing her famous version and making them with us over Christmas. It was really fun!
It was also really fun to make them with Alex this year. She’s at a great age for making cookies!
And the reason I asked her to make these is whenever we go to her house for Christmas, I sit in front of the cookie plate and eat only Peanut Butter Blossoms. No matter how many other kinds of fudge and candy and cookies are on the cookie plate, I always just eat Peanut Butter Blossoms.
They’re magic, I tell you.
Now, let’s eat!
Good enough for one bite. Pinky out!
The Verdict: A Christmas Miracle
From The Tasting Notes –
We all really enjoy these cookies because they are very soft and a little on the salty side. They are sweet, but not too sweet and a good peanut butter flavor. As I’m sure you are all aware, not all peanut butter blossoms are created equal. I’m not sure if it’s Tom’s mom’s magic hands, her recipe, or family bias, but these are the best peanut butter blossoms I’ve ever had.
Did you find a lot of chocolate kisses with their tips knocked off as has been reported in the news lately?
This is the exact recipe that I use. Mine is from my mom, who got hers from a Pillsbury Bake Off booklet.
I always make sure not to overbake, and mine are always really good (if I do say so myself).
I’m with you that not all Peanut Blossoms are created equal. I’ve had some bad ones, just bland with no flavor. I always wonder what they did wrong!
Yes! Definitely my Christmas favorite. Bet my mom uses the same recipe.
I remember eating these as a kid. Guess that means I’m a mid-century classic (born 1951), right?!
I love these so much! I have to admit that i’m all about the ones with the stars on them rather than everyday old Hershey kisses. Chocolate stars or gtfo: https://tramplingrose.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/20131127_7.jpg
I really like that so many of the wet ingredients in this one are in measurements of half of a cup. Makes it really easy to remember! And I like that these come out so flat.
Everyone really does end up with their own version of this sooner or later. We all start out with the version on the back of the Hershey’s Kisses package, but everyone tweaks it in some way or another. Mine uses nearly twice as much peanut butter as shortening (3/4 cup plus two tablespoons, or 7/8ths a cup), because I really, really like peanut butter and want super peanutty cookies. My uncle replaces some of the flour with cocoa powder so the cookies are part chocolate. And so on, and so forth, in the most delicious of holiday traditions!
My recipe! Exactly!
A few years ago, I swapped out the kiss for an upside-down small peanut butter cup and have never looked back. 😉 I’ve never returned the cookies to the oven after adding the chocolate. I’ll have to try that next year (getting close to tossing all the goodies and going back to “normal” eating, so holiday cooking is over for 2018).
My late mother-in-law made these every Christmas. The writing on the recipe card looks just like her handwriting! She usually had a grandkid or two helping put the kisses on top. They are one of my favorites because they’re delicious and because of the happy memories
These are also incredible if you wrap the dough around a chocolate covered almond from Aldi. The chocolate melts and gets really gooey and delicious inside the peanut butter cookie.
I don’t even remember how I found my way here honestly – but I’ve tried a few of the recipes you’ve profiled here and this one may just be the best of the lot! Hopefully they last till I have to take them to church tomorrow… 🙂